Lyck
Germany, a town in East Prussia, 100 miles S. E. of Königsberg.
It is an industrial center of considerable importance, machinery, cement goods, and furniture being manufactured chiefly. It was the scene of much fighting during the war, the Russians capturing it in 1914 and holding it for some weeks.
Pop. about 15,000.
LYCURGUS (li-kurgus), the lawgiver of Sparta; usually dated about 820 B. C. He was uncle of the young King Charilaos, and governed the states wisely during his nephew's infancy, then traveled over Crete, Ionia, and Egypt, and on his return, finding his country in complete anarchy, made a new division of property, and remodelled the whole constitution, military and civil. Next he bound the citizens by oath not to change his laws till he came back, and then left Sparta to be no more seen. His memory was honored as that of a god with a temple and yearly sacrifices.